Sonic,
You don't need to use grep substitutions in replacement expressions.
set StoryTitle to "Example Story"
set ConcatStoryTitle to "ExampleStory"
tell application "BBEdit"
tell text document 1
set vRegex to "(\\d\\d?)(.+?)</a>"
set vReplacement to "<li><a href=\"" & ConcatStoryTitle &
"\\1.html\" title=\"" & StoryTitle & " chapter \\1: \\2\">\\2</a>"
replace vRegex using vReplacement searching in it options {search
mode:grep, wrap around:true}
end tell
end tell
HTH
Jean Jourdain
On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 6:40:37 AM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
> Forgot to mention: if the following block is inserted in place of the
> *replace*, it works:
>
> *find* "(\\d\\d?)(.+?)</a>" options {search mode:*grep*, wrap around:
> *true*} *with* selecting match
>
> *set* chapnumtest *to* *grep substitution* of ("\\1" *as* *text*)
>
> *set* chaptitletest *to* *grep substitution* of ("\\2" *as* *text*)
>
> *log* chapnumtest
>
> *log* chaptitletest
>
>
> So this tells me that my Grep string is valid (which i know from it
> working with the manual not scripted Replace All), making it all the more
> puzzling to me why it fails in a scripted *replace* (all).
>
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